Kerala red signal

Zone of contention

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 10, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

20 years down the line what ails the urban local bodies

Lack of money, capacity and states' unwillingness to cede power

The next challenge

Bureaucrats pose a threat to the process

The impact

Kerala's income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs

A long haul

Decentralisation in Kerala is the work of a persistent civil society

Order on production ban of coke in Kerala quashed

Update

Centre to study endosulfan effect

COVID-19 lockdown crisis for migrant workers: What states are doing

Some states exhibit higher standards of human values while helping migrant workers

COVID-19: Nepal families wait for bodies of workers who died abroad

Families not getting a chance to hold funerals for their loved ones

Red alert on Indian spices

Spice Board challenges US food department’s claims over salmonella contamination

Pentavalent takes its toll

The vaccine is suspected to have killed at least 13 infants. Experts want data analysed

Push to revoke endosulfan ban

Official letter reveals how Kerala is succumbing to the pressure of pesticide lobby

Supreme Court allows export of unused endosulfan

Calls for strict monitoring while packaging

SC seeks details on safe export of endosulfan

Interim ban on the pesticide to continue

Stressed out

Few studies on hypertension, but doctors say it is rising

Road risk

States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

MONEYMAKERS

Reason to cheer

Meet two pioneering grassroots leaders nominated for the Equator Initiative Awards

Drought spreads its tentacles

UP government caught napping as state comes under dry spell

Kerala's backwaters carry modern-day brunt

Their ecosystem is under threat but no one seems to care

According to report